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From that scene alone, pixiv has determined that Nao doesn't wear a bra, and given more fuel to the Nissan Combo (Nao x Akane). Precure fanon is far stretching and highly delusional. Which is why I enjoy watching it slowly build.

If Toei didn't have stretch the show's budget over 50ish episodes, I wish they would've redone the OP to reflect the Miyuki/Candy switcheroo. The one-time-only Cure Candy transformation/attack sequences make up for it, though. Not very often you get to see the mascot fight like that. The failed Candy-as-Miyuki Smile Charge was a nice touch too.

For the show's first non-exposition episode, it was pretty good. Candy doesn't know a thing about how the human world works, and the comedy they got out of that was well timed. Majorina's explanation of the body switching rings and how they got to Earth in the first place provided some nice interplay between the villains. Akane showing that just because you're trapped, it doesn't mean you're useless was another point in this season's favor.

One of Smile's strongest points its its comedy, and for that it's a fun way to finish off the week.

Next week: Major Yayoi focus. The sound of a thousand computers coming to life echoed across Japan.

Another awesome hyper episode today . It was very strange and funny at the same time with Candy and Miyuki switching bodies. When Miyuki transformed into Cure Candy, it was definitely an interesting epic battle to watch. I guess she's a badass when she transforms into Cure Candy. The best part about Smile precure is definitely the comedy. xD

Aaand now Smile Precure is my second favorite precure series after Heartcatch (I've watched all of precure series). No real hand-to-hand fighting so far (cure candy fighting with her hair doesn't count ), but the characters were fun and interesting.

This show is seriously the most amazing series running this season. How can a children's show be this amazing. I'm speechless, lol.

Suite and Heartcatch had to struggle to make me care about the plot sometimes but Smile so far has been impressively tight and solid. Probably the early individual introductions to the characters has contributes to this, but I think this format will offer advantages over the incremental structure of both Suite and Heartcatch, where the plot always seemed to be hijacked by excessive focus on the new Precure whenever an addition to the main cast popped up. With Smile's present cast, although I do have favourites, I'm already rather fond of pretty much all of them (even the villains are charming) so as long as this series keeps up its balanced exposure I will probably be satisfied.

In any case, episode 8 was brilliant. Probably the best episode so far. I am also highly looking forward to next week's "Yayoi lying" episode, as she's showing a fair bit more personality and interesting character than the generic moe shyness which initially caught our attention (lol, both mine, at least, and Japan's).

This probably deserves a spoiler tag, but it's already been mentioned without one, so:

That episode was awesome. The comedy hit all the right notes, and watching Cure Candy was just gold. That transformation sequence was just The more I watch it, the more and more this show looks like a parody show, but that's not a bad thing, especially when it's as funny as this.

It's been a few days since the episode aired, so I guess it's ok not to spoiler tag this anymore.

What can I say? I didn't expect to have many random moments of laughter on a precure episode - mostly at the classroom scenes. It's fortunate that the switch was only for a day or Miyuki's reputation would have been totally ruined.

But wait, there's a little drama too..
Nice character development for Miyuki and Candy on this one.